Approach Altitude Reference
A few versions back, the 3 choices for the Altitude Reference changed to a more intuitive set of choices. The second choice being Terrain Follow. This is much clearer.
I noticed that the Approach Altitude Reference still has the original 3 choices.
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My Hobbyist premium (2020) plan has the three. Take off location (ATL), Ground level (AGL), and Means sea level. According to the pricing plans none of the there Hobbyist plans have Terrain follow. Business plans have terrain follow so check your plan and see if it includes it.
Maybe this will help clear up your question.
Enjoy, Mike…..
I believe the OP is just taking issue with the wording in the drop-down. It used to be that selecting AGL in a map would automatically enable terrain follow on the map, but too many people were getting confused by this, so I updated the AGL in the drop-down to explicitly state that selecting it would enable terrain follow. The issue is, the altitude on the map properties pane is also the same altitude that you select if you open the approach component properties directly, and this properties pane does not have that language added. In a sense it is correct because the approach itself doesn’t do terrain follow, but I understand that all these nuances can be confusing if you aren’t the one that programmed it. As always, when in doubt, run a mission preview - seeing is believing, don’t take my word for it.
Thanks Jim for the background. I brought it up just in case it was a bug.
Good to know that Approach does not do terrain follow. That explains some other nuisances I was seeing. I made the incorrect assumption that other components and features were terrain aware as well.
I need to remember that the mission preview should always be used for new missions and challenging or unknown areas.
Interesting. I learn something all the time. I’ll Just add this to my list. I guess I didn’t help. Sorry……
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